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ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Schmitt v. Husted

2:18-cv-00966 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

Filed Date: Aug. 28, 2018

Closed Date: Nov. 8, 2021

This case alleged that Portage County and Ohio state officials acted as "gatekeepers" by having near-total discretion in determining which initiatives were included on Ohio's ballots. On August 28, 2018, three individuals sued the Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his official capacity and the Portage County Board of Elections and each of its four members in their official capacities in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeking a declaratory judgment, a pre…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Graveline v. Johnson

2:18-cv-12354 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Filed Date: July 27, 2018

Closed Date: Aug. 18, 2021

This case related to whether Michigan's signature requirement for a candidate to be placed on the ballot was constitutional in that they were narrowly tailored to serve a state interest.  On July 27, 2018, a no-party-affiliation candidate for the office of Michigan Attorney General and supportive voters filed a complaint against the Secretary State of Michigan and the Michigan Bureau of Elections. The Complaint alleged that an early candidate filing deadline and a requirement that submission of…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
Stuart v. Huff

1:11-cv-00804 | U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

Filed Date: Sept. 29, 2011

Case Ongoing

This case has to do with the “Woman’s Right to Know Act” (the Act), which was enacted on July 28, 2011 after the legislature overrode a veto by the Governor of North Carolina. This case was brought by the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, Center for Reproductive Rights, and A Woman’s Choice of Raleigh, Inc., on behalf of various physicians, licensed to practice medicine in the State of North Carolina and other various clinics providing reproductive health care services in North Carolina. The case was b…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Mecinas v. Hobbs

2:19-cv-05547 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 1, 2019

Closed Date: June 2, 2022

This is a case about challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s general election ballot ordering statute, A.R.S. § 16-502(E). On November 1, 2019, the individual voters, and the organizations, namely, the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (“DSCC”) and Priorities USA (“Priorities”), a political action committee, filed this lawsuit in the United States District Court District of Arizona. The case was assigned to the United States District Judg…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Petteway v. Galveston County

3:22-cv-00057 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Filed Date: Feb. 15, 2022

Case Ongoing

This case centers around the 2021 Galveston County, Texas redistricting process and is part of a series of cases challenging the redistricting practices in Galveston County over a number of years. This was the first Voting Rights Act (VRA) case decided since the Supreme Court’s decision in Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023). Following the 2010 Census, county leaders adopted a redistricting plan for the county commissioners’ districts that would have effectively removed the single minority op…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Harness v. Hosemann

3:17-cv-00791 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi

Filed Date: Sept. 28, 2017

Closed Date: June 30, 2023

This is a case about the felony disenfranchisement provision of Mississippi’s Constitution, which was enacted in 1890 and strips the right to vote for life from anyone convicted of certain crimes. On 28 September 2017, Black citizens of Mississippi with past felony convictions brought an action against Mississippi's Secretary of State. The claim was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. The complaint argued that the disqualifying crimes in the felony disenfr…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
NAACP v. Merrill

3:18-cv-01094 | U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

Filed Date: June 28, 2018

Closed Date: April 16, 2020

This is a case about counting incarcerated individuals as residents of the district where they are imprisoned for the purpose of legislative redistricting. On June 28, 2018, the NAACP, the NAACP Connecticut State Conference, and five NAACP members filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. The plaintiffs sued Connecticut’s Secretary of State and Governor in their official capacity under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. T…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
League of Women Voters of Florida Inc. v. Lee

4:18-cv-00251 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida

Filed Date: May 22, 2018

Closed Date: April 9, 2020

This case is about a directive issued by the Florida Secretary of State (the “2014 Directive”), which prohibited the use of Florida public university and college campuses as early voting polling locations. In 2013, the Florida state legislature revised its early voting law to give supervisors of elections the power to designate “any . . . fairground, civic center, courthouse, county commission building, stadium, convention center, government-owned senior center, or government-owned community ce…
HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND REPRODUCTIVE ISSUES
GenBioPro, Inc. v. Sorsaia

3:23-cv-00058 | U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Filed Date: Jan. 25, 2023

Case Ongoing

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, the West Virginia legislature enacted the Unborn Child Protection Act (UCPA), which banned nearly all abortions regardless of the stage of pregnancy with only limited exceptions for nonviable fetuses and embryos, ectopic pregnancies, and medical emergencies. On January 25, 2023, GenBioPro, a company that manufacturers and sells a generic version of the abortion medication mifepristone, brought suit in the U.S. District Court for the S…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Colon-Marrero v. Conty-Perez

3:12-cv-01749 | U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico

Filed Date: Sept. 12, 2012

Closed Date: Jan. 30, 2015

This case concerned the Puerto Rico State Election Commission's alleged illegal removal of electors from the electoral register.   On September 12, 2012, a citizen of the United States of America residing in Puerto Rico filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico against the President and the Commissioners of Puerto Rico’s State Elections Commission (“SEC”). The case was presided by District Judge Carmen Consuelo Cerezo. On September 21, 2012, another resident …